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 ...which
make ILA'98 the
most important
aerospace exhibi
tion of the year and thus an indispensable
date for the aerospace world.
• ILA opens the events to commemorate
the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
It is planned to hold political summits and
veterans' meetings and to present the last
Berlin Airlift plane still flying.
• The 1st World Air Transport Meeting
will deal with all ...
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 ...l never explain
why NATO is destroying a town
inhabited by an ethnic minority
which is the biggest opponent of
[Yugoslav Republic president]
Slobodan Milosevic's regime in its
own country.
The Berlin Airlift SO Years on and the Future of Airlift
Contact The Conference Department, The Royal Aeronautical, 4 Hamilton Place,
London W1V0BQ, UK
Tel+44 (0)1714993515
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E-ma...
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 ...uan i international, 17 ^u^u
LIBRARY Flight Canvas No 37: Berlin Airlift veteran Hastings TG517 seen with Vulcan B.2 XL320 in November 1976, seven months before, being withdrawn' to Nottingham's Newark Air Museum.
Ministry of Defence
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 ...the other kit,and
in retrospect it was only Barnes and myself who ever
^med io doubt it.And
, it must be said, two moments—-probably only milli-
Aid for Berlin: Yorks of Transport Command during the Berlin Airlift,
September 194...
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 ... eleven scheduled weekly
return flights were made between May 28
and August 11, 1947, in co-operation with
British South American Airways. Both of
these Lancasters later served for a year
on the Berlin Airlift.
Number eight from a series of fifteen
WELD IN SIGHT
No 11 Malmi Airport, Helsinki, opened in May 1938, was among the first few in Europe to have paved runways. With main runway leng...
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 ...blic of Congo
(Zaire as was) and is to be kept in airworthy condition, to be taxied regularly
and (whisper it not too loudly) perhaps even to fly again...
UNCLE ROGER'S
TOTAL AVIATION
BOOKSHELF
Berlin Airlift, by Arthur
Pearcy; Airlife Publishing,
101 Longden Road,
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
SY3 9EB, UK.
The Berlin Airlift began
50 years ago next year. This
work chronicles the whole
oper...
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 ... scene at Gatow in 1948 during the Berlin Airlift, with a civil-operated
Avro Tudor working alongside Yorks of R.A.F. Transport Command.
The 1949 S.B.A.C. Display at Farnborough, with the Apollo, Comet,
Viscount, Attacker, Hermes IV an...
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 ...lJEJlMAN- AEROSPACE
Berlin airlift impasse
Germany's eye on
the East is set to
further tangle
Europe's tactical
transport web
DOUGLAS BARRIE/LONDON
THE SIGHT OF AN airlifter over Berlin used to be welcome. In the ...
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 ...pan is
3-lm. The second flight is scheduled
for this week with payload testing be
ginning in mid-year.
Stabileye II is launched on its first flight; the
hoop-like structure is a propeller guard
Berlin Airlift
files released
BRITISH Ministry of Defence records
relating to early stages of the Berlin
Airlift have been made available to
the public. The documents are among
files transferred...
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 ...es without mishap;
operations consisted of scheduled car-ferry services between Eng
land and France, charter flights (mainly on cross-Channel routes)
and high-intensity freight work on the "little Berlin airlift."
Miles flown
Passengers carried
Cars carried
Motor cycles carried
Cycles carried
Freight, tons carried
(including vehicles)
Total fleet flying-time (hr)
Equivalent annual util...
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 ...de by a team from 2nd
T.A.F.
No. 43 Squadron's team is led byMaj. R. O. Roberts, U.S.A.F., who is on an
exchange posting, while that of No. Illis led by the CO., S/L. R. Topp.
No. 511 Sqn. Trophy
THE Berlin Airlift Gold Cup, anony--•- mously donated to commemorate the
R.A.F.'s part in the Berlin Airlift, has beenwon by No. 511 Sqn., based at Lyneham,
Wilts. The presentation was being madelast Tues...
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 ...elivered to Oakington. While
based at that Cambridgeshire R.A.F. station, KN55O went onthe strength of No. 30 Squadron and was flown on the Berlin
Airlift.
Operation Plainfare, the R.A.F. part of the Berlin Airlift, cameto an end on September 23, 1949; and in that month KN55O was
sent to No. 22 M.U. at Silloth—whether by road or by air therecords do not indicate. It is possible diat she stayed the...
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 ...Schonefeld/Diepensee
Halls:
Air Transport
Space Technology
| International Exhibitors
[II German Armed Forces
| International Exhibitors
Displays:
International Exhibitors © „50th Anniversary Berlin Airlift"
International Exhibitors © Transport Aviation
International Exhibitors; O Military Aircraft
Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul jfy General Aviation
© Business Aircraft, Helicopters
© H...
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 ...e contracts, one each with JAL,
iously as supplemental, contract, wet-lease and around Europe, one serving a domestic feeder South African Airways and Frontier de
chartering), has existed since die Berlin Airlift of service in the USA for Japan Airlines (JAL), as Colombia (one of the largest cut-flower
1948. It centred on commercial carriers which well as relief operations with a Nairobi, Kenya...
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 ...ng down the line during the post-war slump. The
MATS Connie, 48-609, was the first often for the US Air Force, the other two going to
the US Navy. After delivery in 1948, it was used to support the Berlin Airlift, before
being later converted to a VIP transport (designated VC-121B). The aircraft accumu
lated 16,000h with the USAF before reverting to a C-121A and then being retired in
1968. Tw...
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 ...ice with the RAF, first with No 70 Sqn in the Canal Zone, then,
on recall in 1939, instructing at Hatfield and Prestwick. Later he
commanded a ferry unit, and was with Transport Command during
the Berlin Airlift. When a customer shouts "You should have
been behind bars years ago, George" it is a genuine compliment,
for few pubs offer such a mess-like spirit. Outside the village inn,
incident...
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 ...who were called immediatelyafter the war to the vocation of attempting to run anindependent airline—and few who were finally chosen.
Among the few was Mr Harold Bamberg, who launched himself
into the Berlin airlift at the age of 25, and is now chairman of
British Eagle International Airlines, a direct descendant of the
company he founded then. Along most of the way since those
early post-war days ...
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 ...LIGHT International, 24 July 1976 237
can support my belief. Following the loss of Star Ariel the
certificates of airworthiness of all Tudors, with the excep
tion of those on the Berlin Airlift, were temporarily with
drawn.
I seem to remember as a probable explanation of the
losses the case in which a Tudor rapidly lost a great deal
of height after a malfunction of the ele...
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 ...ost it is a target for the
critics of the "Fortress Falklands" policy.
After the conclusion of the Falklands war,
which had generated the most intensive
air transport effort by the RAF since
the Berlin Airlift, priority freight and
essential personnel could only be airlifted
to the Islands from Ascension by air-
refuelled C-130 Hercules. During one of
these sorties Fit Lt Locke and his cre...
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 ...n operated Allied
support flights during the remaining
weeks of the war. In June 1948, the base
near Frankfurt am Main captured world
wide attention as the home base for what
became known as the Berlin Airlift.
For 15 months, Douglas C-47s and C-
54s flew tons of food, coal and other neces
sities from Rhein-Main and two other
bases into the city that had been isolated by
the Soviet Union....
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